Jeanne Timmons
@mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska. https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freelance-work/
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Little girl on the train: Uncle Mallory died. Her mum: Yes. Little girl: So he won't feel anything now. Her mum: No. Little girl: Which is good because the insects will be eating his eyes.
Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?
Thrilled to bike before the rain and oppressive heat. 💙🚲
SSFs stands for small shelly fossils*. This is genuinely the terminology, just in case you thought palaeontology was too sophisticated or complex. *Sometimes it's small shelly fauna, to pre-empt the "actually"
The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 7h agoCambrian SSFs from North Greenland (eastern Laurentia) with regional & global correlations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
"A special exhibition titled 'Elephant Fossils of Shinshu' is currently underway at the Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum in Shinano Town, featuring 27 elephant fossils discovered within the prefecture." - from Google translate Thank you, @dinopantheon.bsky.social, for posting!
パンテオン@dinopantheon.bsky.social · yesterday長野県内で見つかったゾウの化石を見比べるぞう！ 信濃町の博物館で特別展｜信濃毎日新聞デジタル 信州・長野県のニュースサイト www.shinmai.co.jp/news/article...
Pense: Esta árvore viveu na Era Paleozoica, já era um fóssil quando o primeiro dinossauro pisou na Terra. E continua em pé. Floresta Petrificada de Teresina, Rio Poty.
Paleoparadoxia, a bizarre marine mammal with bizarre teeth and jaws and bizarre giant hands and- you get it, its got nothing to do with hippos lol (paleoart comm)
RFK Jr. is the embodiment of the “medical freedom” movement. They don’t want medical freedom. They want freedom from accountability when their actions harm others.
Isso amplia nossa compreensão sobre a evolução dos mamíferos e revela que sua diversidade morfológica e ecológica durante o Cretáceo pode ter sido muito maior do que imaginávamos 🤓📚.
Se essa interpretação estiver correta e as pegadas realmente tiverem sido produzidas por um Mammaliaformes, elas indicam que esse grupo alcançou grandes dimensões muito antes do que indicava o registro fóssil conhecido 🤔.
As pegadas de Santa Catarina, porém, medem cerca de 10 cm de comprimento por 12 cm de largura, sugerindo que um animal com porte semelhante ao de um carcaju ou de um bulldog-inglês caminhou sobre as areias do paleodeserto Botucatu, aqui no 🇧🇷, há mais de 130 milhões de anos 🏜️.
O q torna essa descoberta intrigante é o tamanho das pegadas. Até onde sabemos, os Mammaliaformes permaneceram relativamente pequenos 🤏 ao longo de toda a Era Mesozoica. No Cretáceo, por exemplo, os maiores 📏 mamíferos conhecidos não ultrapassavam o porte de um 🦡 texugo, como Repenomamus, da China.
🚨🧪⚒️Já está disponível nosso mais novo artigo sobre pegadas do paleodeserto Botucatu! 🏜️ Nele descrevemos 2 conjuntos de pegadas 🐾, encontrados em uma pedreira em Santa Catarina. As pegadas apresentam diversas características compatíveis com Mammaliaformes (grande grupo q inclui os mamíferos).
Aline Ghilardi@alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 4d agoRemarkably large mammal-like tracks from the Botucatu Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Paraná Basin, Brazil: implications for the evolution of large size in Mammaliaformes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My daughter has just sent me this lovely photo where you get an even better view of the puffin.
Pair of Sachicasaurus vitae, splashing around 124 MYA in the waters over what will someday be Colombia. Included a color rough in the thread- this piece was relatively painless thanks to that step and definitely something I always need to remember to incorporate! #paleosky #sachicasaurus #paleoart
Bambiraptor feinbergi. Possibly a valid genus… possibly a juvenile Saurornitholestes. Possibly none of the above. I spent far too long on this one. I hope it was worth it 🫠 If the scientists could avoid reclassifying Bambi before people have seen this, I’d appreciate it. 😉 #SciArt
One of the uniting features of humanity, alongside music, liking small animals, and enjoying some form of meat (or veggie substitute) inside dough, is that we will look at a large body of water and go "what if there was a monster in there"
“Republicans rejected killing the proposed rule outright,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray The fight is not over.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d agoTHIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
Dan Liimatta@danliimatta.bsky.social · 5d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
ICE agents violently attacked Dr. Norma Bowe in front of Delaney Hall. She was there to run a mobile health clinic. ICE's cruelty knows no bounds — in or out of detention centers. @aclu-nj.org joined dozens of ACLU affiliates to represent people who were harmed by federal immigration agents.
This nurse brings healthcare to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.
This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.
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@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social had a very important role in exposing Max Miller’s behavior in Mother Jones and you should go read: www.motherjones.com/politics/202....
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoMax Miller said on X Live that "Journalism is supposed to ask difficult questions... and tell the whole story." Miller *repeatedly* declined to answer detailed questions from Mother Jones before we published our story.
Not quite as bad as depicted below, but still, I feel like Alexis as I highlight a paper's salient points (of which there are many) #megafauna 🦥🦣
This research wouldn't have been possible without NASA Exobiology, which funded us to study the role ferns played in the recovery of life after Earth's most recent mass extinction. Under OMB's proposed rules, we wouldn't have been able to use grant funds to publish this paper (which is open access).
